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Debug
editDebug
editBy default, Packetbeat sends all its output to syslog. When you run Packetbeat in
the foreground, you can use the -e command line flag to redirect the output to
standard error instead. For example:
packetbeat -e
The default configuration file is packetbeat.yml (the location of the file varies by
platform). You can use a different configuration file by specifying the -c flag. For example:
packetbeat -e -c mypacketbeatconfig.yml
You can increase the verbosity of debug messages by enabling one or more debug
selectors. For example, to view publisher-related messages, start Packetbeat
with the publisher selector:
packetbeat -e -d "publisher"
If you want all the debugging output (fair warning, it’s quite a lot), you can
use *, like this:
packetbeat -e -d "*"